As Palmer sprinted to the aid of Laffite, the race was stopped.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chequered Conflict] Reference

The questionable spellings of "Château-Laffite" and "Vindolana" are as per the original book.    From Wordnik.com.  [Border Ghost Stories] Reference

It took thirty-five minutes to stabilize Laffite and free him from what was left of the cockpit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chequered Conflict] Reference

Johansson clipped the barrier surrounding the mouth of the tunnel but Laffite rammed the steelwork head-on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chequered Conflict] Reference

As Kubica demonstrated so spectacularly in Montreal, had this happened in 2007, Laffite would have walked away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chequered Conflict] Reference

I propose a glass or two of Bordeauxrama, rendered twice illustrious by the name of Laffite, no political allusions intended. —.    From Wordnik.com.  [Father Goriot] Reference

Cars went everywhere, one of them, the Ferrari of Stefan Johansson, swerving right and forcing the Ligier of Jacques Laffite to do the same.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chequered Conflict] Reference

My grandfather said that Jean Laffite used to tie his boat there when he was blackbirding and that he had buried a treasure between two oaks on the back of our property.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Get-Back Boogie] Reference

On the contrary, Laffite -- whose crime was violation of customs laws -- received his pardon because he had turned down a British bribe to assist with the invasion of New Orleans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call] Reference

I asked Ms. Leaf, referencing Bordeaux, as in Chateau Laffite, as I snatched a piece of delicious Toffee Taboo, the first real chocolate I'd had all day, from a counter as she looked the other way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chocolate's Dark Cult] Reference

Keith E. Gatling Syracuse, N. Y.Pardoning a Historical Hero As a translator of the memoirs of Jean Laffite (that's how he spelled his family name), I'd like to point out that your Feb. 26 graphic on presidential pardons ( "A Checkered Past," NATIONAL AFFAIRS) inaccurately implies that Laffite, along with his pirates, was pardoned by President James Madison for aiding the British in the War of 1812.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call] Reference

Laffite the banker told Savary it was a grand idea, but impracticable (Savary, tome v.p. 110).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Memoirs of Napoleon]

Mercedes will debut a significant update, including new wheelbase and weight distribution package, at the Spanish grand prix, and Laffite thinks Barcelona "will be better" for Schumacher.    From Wordnik.com.  [PaddockTalk Racing News]

Special Duty spent the winter as favourite for the filly's Classic and retained that position, albeit a little uneasily, when she was beaten a length in the Prix Impudence at Maisons-Laffite last week.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

Yet, indeed, one knows what was in his classic mind, from the fact that a poor vintage in a real Italian flask, or in something shaped like an amphora, would have made him chuckle with joy far more readily than if a rich man had offered him in a bottle some glorious first growth of the Medoc, Laffite, Latour, or Haut­Brion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Private Life of Henry Maitland]

M Edmonds, C Garcia; J Fiorini, A Heguy, D Avril, A Springgay, N Laffite, G Bernad, J Deen, M Baget.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rugby news from Scrum.com] Reference